East Texas is home to a wide array of fascinating wildlife, including the giant swallowtail butterfly. Known for its impressive size and striking appearance, this butterfly is a frequent visitor to ...

I love butterflies…of all kinds. And I have written several articles about this beloved insect. Most of the time, I write about the monarch butterfly, because I have raised them the last few years.

I was excited to have Monarch caterpillars, even though they were chomping away on my fennel, but then this gorgeous number emerged from the chrysalis! Seems to be a black swallowtail. I’m a little ...

The black swallowtail is the State Butterfly of Oklahoma. It’s a beautiful butterfly with a striking caterpillar. It is found throughout the state and is common in our flower and vegetable gardens ...

The first time I saw a giant swallowtail butterfly years ago, I just happened to walk out to get the mail and saw it nectaring on lantana in my flower bed by the road. What a surprise! This huge pale ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The delicate gossamer-winged butterfly gives color and grace to your garden. Besides being beautiful, they’re good pollinators in our gardens and in the wild ...

A zebra swallowtail butterfly at Splinter Ridge Fish and Wildlife Area near Madison. Submitted photo. “If you whisper a wish to a butterfly, then give it its freedom, the wish will be taken to the ...

I think it was my 12th birthday when I received a butterfly and moth capturing kit. It came with a fine-meshed insect net and other items for euthanizing and mounting specimens in a display frame.

We keep finding caterpillars in our garden. I wrote about a silkworm caterpillar we raised indoors until a winged Io moth emerged in July. In August, my wife, Kathy, found another caterpillar — aka ...